This story was originally published in our Nov/Dec 2023 issue as "Blowing Smoke ... until the end of the 18th century,” Serdeczny says. Anecdotal reports of rescuers using chest compressions appear at ...

Anti-tobacco fanatics in 18th-century Iran overpowered anybody caught smoking a pipe, rammed the pipe into the smoker’s nose and dragged the unfortunate through the streets. Swiss law makes it ...

The most bizarre application, however, would probably be as a cure for symptoms of drowning in the 18th century. Tobacco smoke enema kits were kept by the Thames River in London. Should someone ...

Over the course of six decades, James Bond eluded thousands of enemy bullets ... lacked smoking-related imagery entirely. But Wilson’s study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, found ...

Scenes like this play out in coffee shops all over the world in 2013, but this scene could just as easily describe one of the many coffeehouses in 18th-century ... tobacco smoke, and now we ...